About Me 

Biography & Personal Statement

Carlos Acosta is a Sophomore from Baltimore City studying Aerospace Engineering at University of Maryland. Besides an interest in STEM, his has interests in exercise, art, reading, movies, and video games. He likes to use art as a way to express creativity and new ideas in a way that becomes visible to others and himself, it allows him to ponder his own thoughts in a tangible way. However he also uses his interests to gather inspiration to expand his creativity, allowing him to grasp ideas from outside the box and look at things with a new light. This combination creates a flow of ideas being created and tested, and then reflected on to understand what worked. After graduating with a bachelors in Aerospace Engineering, he plans to work for a aerospace research branch of the government such as NASA, to explore new paths in space technology.

As a College Park Art Scholar Carlos Acosta, aims to refine his interest in art throughout his semesters and his Capstone project in his sophomore year. He hopes that his Capstone project will be the push he needs to start more projects and get a feel for what he wants to do with art in the future. His academic goals include researching and creating air and space craft models and mastering all there is to Aerospace Engineering.